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FIRST ON FOX: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are continuing deportation operations despite a lapse in federal funding and being deployed to assist with massive airport security lines across the country, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital.
According to the department, ICE officers continuing immigration enforcement operations nationwide arrested child predators, rapists, drug traffickers and a member of the violent Salvadoran MS-13 gang over the weekend.
This comes as ICE officers were seen assisting the understaffed Transportation Security Administration and airport staff at terminals across the country, including New York City, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta and New Orleans. On Sunday, Trump border czar Tom Homan told CBS News that ICE agents will “continue a nice presence” at airports until they “feel like they’re 100% … in a posture where they can do no normal operations.”
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis addressed concerns that ICE would not be able to sustain its normal operations while assisting TSA by telling Fox News Digital that ICE “will continue arresting public safety threats from our communities and will not allow the Democrats to slow us down from making America safe again.”
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Immigration agents and travelers are seen inside Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal A in Newark, New Jersey, on March 23, 2026. President Donald Trump states that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be deployed to airports nationwide beginning Monday. The agents are expected to assist TSA officers with security. (Matthew Hoen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Bis said that “over the weekend, ICE arrested more dangerous criminals, including an MS-13 gang member, child predators, rapists and drug traffickers.”
In the New York City area, where ICE was seen at John F. Kennedy,…
